dsd_, and what is the goal of your visit? it would be great if you could meet some of the local volunteers as well as our finnish volunteers tuukka and kaisa who have a very clear picture of the landscape here

Also the relationship between the constructionist self-directed learning Activities and the more conventional curriculum. That is, the expectation for the equivalent of textbooks, worksheets and lesson plans in electronic form.

OLPC Australia has been very active. For Australian indigenous communities, low English literacy coupled with a large number of indigenous languages each with a small number of speakers is an issue. (Localization seems to have been effective for large deployments sharing a single language but less successful for smaller deployments and languages).

but it would be really cool if other deployments could reach the top of the wave (Sugar 0.88) as we did thanks to bernie's wonderful work, using the latest version helps the communication with the development team (imho)

so, deployments face serious issues.. localization, technical incompatibilities, etc.. if we could share more learned lessons among deployments time could be saved, and the Development team would have a more organized mass of users

I am a teacher, and know what its like to be alone with a piece of technology not working and students sitting there waiting for you to fix it - under pressure you don't always remember how to get help, unless you speak to help every day you do feel alone and unsupported, hence my question of how do we go to them

so I'd like to wrap this up with 2 questions 1) how do we (deployments) aggregate our feedback so developers can know better how to act upon problems and 2) how do we (deployments) share our lessons learned to make it easier for new/others deployments

SeanDaly: one of the things we (.PY) wanted to do but finally got to do it in our 2nd year of deployment is share every piece of (useful) code that is build here.. (as you might have seen tch's announcement of YAAS - yet another activation system, last week)